Liver metastases: Improved detection with dynamic gadolinium-enhanced MR imaging?

Radiology

Volumn 202, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 677-682

  Hamm, Bernd ^a   Mahfouz, Ahmed Emad ^b   Taupitz, Matthias ^a   Mitchell, Donald G ^c   Nelson, Rendon ^d   Halpern, Elkan ^e   Speidel, Andrea ^f   Wolf, Karl Jürgen ^f   Saini, Sanjay ^e  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Liver neoplasms; Magnetic resonance (MR), comparative studies; Magnetic resonance (MR), phase imaging

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM PENTETATE; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE MEGLUMINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LIVER METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEEDLE BIOPSY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 0031044260     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiology.202.3.9051015     Document Type: Article

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